![]() Now raucous parties, boat trips, and endless glasses of gin consume Henry and Effie’s days and nights. ![]() Staying with her is her lover, the insouciant writer Max, and his enigmatic half-sister Alma. Clara is older and worldlier than Effie in every way. When the lights come on at the house across the street, Effie is reintroduced to Clara, an acquaintance from her days holidaying in Cape May as a girl. With little to amuse them, Henry and Effie spend their days exploring the town’s quiet streets, and the long nights exploring each other. It’s September, the off-season, and the town is nearly deserted – the beach is empty the houses are dark. ![]() Set in 1957, in the seaside New Jersey town that gives the book its title, Cheek introduces Henry and Effie: young, Southern, unsophisticated and on their honeymoon. ![]() There’s an old-fashioned glamour to Chip Cheek’s impressive debut novel, Cape May, which I found very alluring. ![]()
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